serbian revolution

Hadji Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman soldier and statesman who served as pasha of the Sanjak of Smederevo from 1793 until his murder in 1801. He was an enemy of the Janissaries and their ally Osman Pazvantoglu and a friend of local Serbs, who he allowed to collect taxes and form militias, and the...

I am currently exploring the possibility of using the Ottoman palace coups in 1807-1808 as a POD for the early collapse of the empire. If Mahmud II is successfully murdered, who would become the sultan? Would Mustafa Bayraktar take the throne after he deposes Mustafa IV, or is there some distant...

As early as a month into the uprising against the Dahije that terrorized the Sanjak of Smederevo, the leaders (or vođa) of the First Serbian Uprising realized that, in order to fully guarantee that things would be returned to how they once were from 1793 to 1799/1801, they would need...

Following a string of victories against the Ottomans, the Serbian insurgents sent Petar Ičko as their envoy to the Sublime Porte. Following some negotiations, Ičko managed to convince them to give the Serbs some favorable concessions, which we know as Ičko's Peace. However, the Russians...